stub

1. 1.

   pull up (weeds) by their roots

   Broaderuproot
2. 2.

   extinguish by crushing

   “stub out your cigarette now”

   Broadersnuff out
3. 3.

   clear of weeds by uprooting them

   “stub a field”

   Broaderweed
4. 4.

   strike (one's toe) accidentally against an object

   “She stubbed her toe in the dark and now it's broken”

   Broaderhit

Other forms of stub

plural

stubs·

past tense or participle

stubbed

present participle

stubbing

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about stub

What does stub mean?

stub means "a short piece remaining on a trunk or stem where a branch is lost". That is the primary sense; the word has 9 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in stub?

stub has 1 syllable: stub. In IPA it is /ˈstʌb/.

What is another word for stub?

Close synonyms include nub, ticket stub, check stub, counterfoil, butt. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is stub a common word?

stub is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.